New Post: Google recognizes content creators: A breakthrough for E-E-A-T and SEO - https://lnkd.in/gQFiYNDv -
Google is explicitly identifying people it understands to be content creators.
This article explains how we know that Google is recognizing content creators, why it’s important and what SEO professionals need to do in response.
Google’s growing recognition of content creator entities
I recently discovered Knowledge Panel subtitles like “Content Creator (Medicine)” and “Content Creator (Travel)” in the SERPs.
This shows Google’s explicit identification of individuals as authoritative content creators within specific fields.
This is a significant E-E-A-T development for content creators as it gives visible and meaningful proof that Google has recognized them as credible sources of information on a specific topic.
It’s also a huge advantage in modern SEO, since the person’s content is more likely to appear in today’s search results and tomorrow’s AI-powered assistants.
Here are some examples from the Kalicube Pro dataset (tracking over 17 million person entities) for content creator topics:
Agriculture, Animals, Art, Automobiles.
Baking, Baseball, Beauty, Bodybuilding, Boxing.
Camping, Cats, Coaching, Cooking, Cosmetics, Cricket, Cryptocurrency.
Dancing, Dogs.
Fashion, Fashion, Finances, Fishing, Food.
Gambling, Games, Geography, Gymnastics.
Health, Hiking, History, Humor.
Interior design, Investing, Jazz, Law.
Magic, Markets, Martial arts, Medicine, Mental health, Music.
Nutrition, Painting, Parenting, Physical fitness, Politics, Psychology.
Racing, Real Estate, Religion.
Science, Shopping, Skincare, Soccer, Stand-up comedy, Surfing.
Technology, Toys, Travel, Vegetarianism, Video games, Volleyball.
Weather, Weight loss, Wildlife, Wrestling.
Google is looking for content creators
This focus on identifying content creators is a recurring theme at Google.
Three events in 2023 and 2024 demonstrated that identifying content creators is a major focus for Google:
The Killer Whale Knowledge Graph update in July 2023.
The March 2024 E-E-A-T update.
The Google leak in May 2024 confirmed that Google explicitly associates people with their profile pages (isReference) and articles they have written (isAuthor).
Our Knowledge Graph monitoring tool shows small updates every 1 to 2 weeks. In 2024, they have mostly affected person entities.
While these updates may seem random and impact around 10% of entities, they are typically minor “recalibrations” rather than strategically significant changes.
The key takeaway is that Google is increasingly focused on identifying trustworthy person entities and connecting them to the content they create.
Why this is important to E-E-A-T in SEO
E-E-A-T takes on real (measurab
Freelance Writer at Self Employed
4moThat seems like a fairly high price point, I wonder how ad buyers feel about that.